CONYNGHAM 413 aged 92, at Bifrons, near Canterbury. (^) Will pr. 30 Dec. 1861, under
- ^ 200,000.
[Henry Joseph Conyngham, JA'/^tj' Earl of Mount Charles, ist s. and h. ap., h. 5 Apr. 1795; ed. at Trin. Coll. Cambridge i8i3.() M.P. (Tory) for co. Donegal, 1 8 1 8-24. He d. unm. and v.p., 26 Dec. 1824, at Nice, and was bur. there, aged 29. Will pr. June 1825.] 2 and 4. Francis Nathaniel (CoNYNG- ham). Marquess Conyngham, &c. [I.], also Baron Minster, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h., b. 1 1 June 1797, in Dublin. Page of Honour to the Prince Regent till 1 820, 1832. when he entered the Army; Major Gen. 1858; Lieut. Gen. 1866; Gen. 1874. M.P.Q for W^estbury, 1818-20, for co. Donegal, 1825-31; Groom of the Bed- chamber and Master of the Robes, 1 820-30; Under Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs, 1823-26; G.C.H. (civil), 1823; one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1826-30; K.P., 27 Mar. 1833; Post- master Gen., July to Dec. 1834, and, again, for three weeks in May 1835; P.C. 20 May i835;and Lord Chamberlain, 1835-39; Vice Adm. of Ulster 1849; and Lord Lieut, of co. Meath 1869, both till his death. He was also Commodore of the Irish Yacht Club and Vice Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club.('^) He m., 24 Apr. 1824, at the house of the Duke of Argyll, in Brook Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., Jane, 2nd da. of Henry William (Paget), ist Marquess of Anglesey, by his ist wife, Catherine Elizabeth, da. of George (Villiers), 4th Earl of Jersey. She, who was b. 13 Oct. MARQUESSATE [L] IL EARLDOM AND VISCOUNTCY [L] IIL BARONY [L] IV. monasticism is no less a person than Lady Conyngham, who has been living here the whole winter, in such absolute seclusion that hardly ten people are aware of her existence." V.G. (^) The yr. of their 2 surv. sons, Lord Albert Denison Conyngham, by Royal lie. 1849, '^°°^ ^^^ surname of Denison on inheriting the estates of that family, and was in 1850, cr. Baron Londesborough. (*>) His fellow collegian, Lord Teignmouth, calls him "a tall, stout, good humoured fellow of exuberant spirits." V.G. {") He was a pro-Catholic Tory till 1830, and thereafter a Whig. V.G. {^) "I hear [he] makes a great fool of himself and is always showing oiT his favour with the King, displaying watches, snuff-boxes, and rings which he receives from him." (Harriet, Countess Granville, 18 Aug. 1820). "II est jeune, beau, Elegant, homme a bonnes fortunes." (Duchesse de Dino, Chroniquc, 17 June 1834). V.G.
